“The increased accuracy and flexibility of the system means that we can safely manufacture certain products in house that we previously would have had to buy in. In fact, there are some components Tex no longer even keeps. In terms of overall stock levels, we estimate that Preactor has helped reduced this by 30-40% with labour costs within the planning department having been reduced by an even more impressive 50%.”

SIMATIC IT Preactor AS Professional has a number of additional schedule optimization rules to deal with problems such as minimizing changeover times, preferred sequencing and campaigning. Composite rules can also be built with SIMATIC IT Preactor’s workflow tool.
At SIMATIC IT Preactor AS Professional level, the user is also able to implement customer specific rules about how materials are consumed and visualize their assembly process from raw materials through to finished goods and sales orders in the Material Explorer. This shows a graphical view of the material dependencies as well as plots of stock levels over time. The user can see where shortages will occur and choose to keep them as a constraint or ignore them. In addition to this SIMATIC IT Preactor AS professional can model advanced resource constraints, such as rules about concurrent rule usage, and advanced inter-operation constraints including limits on the time between operations and how much operation times can be extended by.